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May 10

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Indian Mutiny of 1857

169 years ago

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1899

Fred Astaire

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330th

Jean de La Bruyère

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Famous births29

1727 · 299 yrs

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne (English: toor-GOH; French:; 10 May 1727 – 18 March 1781), commonly known as Turgot, was a French economist and statesman. Sometimes considered a physiocrat, he is today best remembered as an early advocate for economic liberalism.

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ScienceDied aged 53

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1760 · 266 yrs

Rouget de Lisle

Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (French:; 10 May 1760 – 26 June 1836) was a French army officer of the French Revolutionary Wars. Lisle is known for writing La Marseillaise and it became the French national anthem.

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MilitaryDied aged 76

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1788 · 238 yrs

Augustin-Jean Fresnel

Augustin-Jean Fresnel (10 May 1788 – 14 July 1827) was a French civil engineer and physicist whose research in optics led to the almost unanimous acceptance of the wave theory of light, fully supplanting Newton's corpuscular theory, from the late 1830s until the end of the 19th century.

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TechnologyDied aged 39

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1838 · 188 yrs

John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American stage actor and murderer who assassinated United States president Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865.

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FilmDied aged 26

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1843 · 183 yrs

Benito Pérez Galdós

Benito María de los Dolores Pérez Galdós (Spanish pronunciation:; 10 May 1843 – 4 January 1920) was a Spanish realist novelist and politician. He was a leading literary figure in 19th-century Spain, and some scholars consider him second only to Miguel de Cervantes in stature as a Spanish novelist.

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LiteratureDied aged 76

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1872 · 154 yrs

Marcel Mauss

Marcel Israël Mauss (French:; 10 May 1872 – 10 February 1950) was a French sociologist and anthropologist known as the "father of French ethnology". The nephew of Émile Durkheim, Mauss, in his academic work, crossed the boundaries between sociology and anthropology.

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ReligionDied aged 77

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1876 · 150 yrs

Ivan Cankar

Ivan Cankar (pronounced, ) (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature.

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LiteratureWould be 150

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1878 · 148 yrs

Gustav Stresemann

Gustav Ernst Stresemann (German pronunciation:; 10 May 1878 – 3 October 1929) was a German statesman during the Weimar Republic who served as chancellor of Germany from August to November 1923 and as foreign minister from 1923 to 1929.

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1886 · 140 yrs

Karl Barth

Karl Barth (Swiss Standard German:; (1886-05-10)10 May 1886 – (1968-12-10)10 December 1968) was a Swiss Reformed theologian.

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ReligionWould be 140

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1890 · 136 yrs

Alfred Jodl

Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl (German:; born Alfred Josef Baumgärtler; 10 May 1890 – 16 October 1946) was a German military officer and convicted war criminal who served as the chief of the operations staff of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht – the German Armed Forces High Command – throughout World War II.

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1899 · 127 yrs

Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter, whose career in stage, film, and television spanned 76 years. He is widely regarded as the "greatest popular-music dancer of all time".

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1900 · 126 yrs

Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (born Cecilia Helena Payne; (1900-05-10)May 10, 1900 – (1979-12-07)December 7, 1979) was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist. Her work on the cosmic makeup of the universe and the nature of variable stars was foundational to modern astrophysics.

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Famous deaths9

1696 · 330 yrs

Jean de La Bruyère

Jean de La Bruyère (UK:, UK:; French:; 16 August 1645 – 11 May 1696) was a French philosopher and moralist who was noted for his satire.

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LiteratureDied aged 50

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1774 · 252 yrs

Louis XV of France

Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five.

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RoyaltyDied aged 64

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1829 · 197 yrs

Thomas Young

Thomas Young (13 June 1773 – 10 May 1829) was a British polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. He was instrumental in the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs, specifically the Rosetta Stone.

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ScienceDied aged 55

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1849 · 177 yrs

Katsushika Hokusai

Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾北斎; c. 31 October 1760 – 10 May 1849) was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, active as a painter and printmaker. His woodblock print series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji includes the iconic print The Great Wave off Kanagawa.

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ArtDied aged 88

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1863 · 163 yrs

Stonewall Jackson

Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 – May 10, 1863) was a Confederate general and military officer who served during the American Civil War. He played a prominent role in nearly all military engagements in the eastern theater of the war until his death.

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MilitaryDied aged 39

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1904 · 122 yrs

Henry Morton Stanley

Sir Henry Morton Stanley (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author, and politician famous for his exploration of Central Africa and search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

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MediaDied aged 63

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1977 · 49 yrs

Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 1904–1908 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress. She began her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway.

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2017 · 9 yrs

Miriam Rodríguez Martínez

Miriam Elizabeth Rodríguez Martínez (5 February 1960 – 10 May 2017) was a Mexican human rights activist. She became one of the many "Missing Child Parents" (a class of victims of organized crime, labeled as such by local news media), after her daughter was abducted and killed.

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2022 · 4 yrs

Leonid Kravchuk

Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Макарович Кравчук, IPA:; 10 January 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Ukrainian politician who served as the first president of Ukraine from 5 December 1991 to 19 July 1994.

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Events5

1857 · 169 yrs

Indian Mutiny of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power, including military forces, on behalf of the British Crown.

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War

1940 · 86 yrs

Battle of France

The Battle of France (French: Bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Fall of France, was the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) and France during the Second World War.

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War

2002 · 24 yrs

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA Wrestling or simply TNA) is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Nashville, Tennessee. It is a subsidiary of Anthem Sports & Entertainment.

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Politics

2007 · 19 yrs

Eurovision Song Contest 2007

The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 was the 52nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It consisted of a semi-final on 10 May and a final on 12 May 2007, held at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland, and presented by Jaana Pelkonen and Mikko Leppilampi.

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Culture

2022 · 4 yrs

Eurovision Song Contest 2022

The Eurovision Song Contest 2022 was the 66th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It consisted of two semi-finals on 10 and 12 May and a final on 14 May 2022, held at the Palasport Olimpico in Turin, Italy, and presented by Alessandro Cattelan, Laura Pausini and Mika.

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